Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....
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Cut $8K off the Golf sticker and VW will have a winner.
Add an all-wheel-drive manual trans option and I’d bite again. My 2 2005 TDI agons are getting long in the tooth.
VW has a pricing problem, IMHO; in addition, they try to push unionization down the throats of US workers. OTOH, sometimes it’s a horse/water/won’tdrink thing.
Volkswagen XL1 Gets 261-MPG, is NOT a Concept Car
http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2013/03/volkswagen-xl1-gets-261-mpg-is-not-a-concept-car-2013-geneva-motor-show.html
You could pay me to drive an Audi or VW. I know I would end up broken down somewhere.
I hate diesels. They stink, they’re noisy, and the strange people who own them love to leave them running. Ambulance crews pull up to food vendors and sit with the engine running, ruining everyone else’s meal. Armored cars fill supermarkets with stench. Every dump truck in the nation seems to belch lung scarring soot. Diesel wreaks before and after it is burned. But the worst thing is how diesel owners go on and on about how perfectly wonderful they are.
The re-designed Audi A3 may be as good or better than the A3 hatchback, but it is bound to fail because it is an ugly, boring looking little car. I paid $44,000 for my A3 hatchback in 20012 and would gladly pay that or more again for the new ‘Sportback’ which Audi had promised to bring back to the US in the Summer of 2015. I am, however, beginning to doubt they will bring it back. They have too many boring little redesigned A3s on their hands that no one wants and they have no way to dump that inventory.
I was thinking of trading my 2.5L 5-cylinder Passsat for a TDI, but now I’m not sure because of reliability reviews due to EPA/CA regs...the 2.5 maybe be underpowered but it’s pretty smooth and bulletproof.
FWIW, I just went on VW’s official site, and you can get a basic Golf TDI Sportwagen for $24,595, which is a lot less than the quoted $29k.
VW’s are too expensive. Also the only one I ever owned was a lemon, so I’m a bit biased. Don’t think I’d buy another one.